We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the
world, to be masters of our own fate, only of our fate, not of
others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
- Golda Meir,
in an address to the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
(Cassius at I, ii)